Someone suggested to me getting a laptop with a scanner, scanning the worksheet and then have software where you can click where the answers go. Then the worksheet could be printed or emailed to the teacher. But I'm not a techie and have no idea what software or how this would work. Let us know if you figure out anything that works since I have the same problem with my 6 year old. The teacher is willing to give him third grade math but the print on the page is tiny and he can't write that small. Even if he is able to write large, his writing is pretty poor.
Oh there is! Polarbear has it... and my husband knows of it too .. it's acrobat something but it is expensive (well I guess that is subjective but I beleive it is over $100) that is why we haven't gotten yet... We have less worksheet homework this year for some reason so we are still holding off on it but I fully intend to get it eventually. If polarbear doesn't chime in I will check for the name of it with my hubby....
Yeah, Adobe Acrobat can do this, and yes, the full version of Adobe Acrobat is expensive.
But there's another way... OCR, otherwise known as Optical Character Recognition. A lot of scanners ship with software that does this, allowing you to scan a document and translate it into, say, Microsoft Word. So that would be a feature to look for when shopping for the scanner.
If it's not part of the scanner, there are 3rd-party apps that do this. I can't vouch for any of them personally. I can say with authority, though, that if what you're receiving are poor-quality pages, your experiences with any OCR technology will be incredibly frustrating.
For a low-tech solution, you could always:
1) Scan the documents in as an image, and open in Paint.
2) Show your son how to create text boxes to write in his answers.
